"Even with having the most professional military in the world," said Pentagon spokesman George Little, "we did not anticipate the unintended consequences. Apparently, when you give soldiers a weapon they've dreamed about their entire lives, their intelligence drops to the level of a retarded monkey."

OK, I LOL'd. Probably wouldn't really be that bad that fast, but yeah - every service has a few Hold My Beer And Watch This kinda people.

I worked in that hospital in Germany they mention, and we got our share of the results of folks doing dumb things - guys trying to rappel out the 4th floor window, putting someone in a metal locker and throwing him out the 2nd floor window, sliding down a freshly-waxed hallway and imbedding a doorstop in the thigh, etc.

MadameX: every service has a few Hold My Beer And Watch This kinda people.

Yeah, on subs they are called Auxiliary Division, aka A-Gang. Great guys individually, but a bunch of redneck cluebags as a group generally. Were this real, the number of boats that would never return to port would be terrifying. But the antics that led up to that would be hilarious.

Alocksly:They took our bayonets away in Bosnia. Swear to Effin' God. Because dudes were screwing around and cutting themselves.

I can believe it, two weeks after we got the new "high intensity flashlights" (aka mag lights) they were recalled because battery use had skyrocketed due to "lightsaber" fights, also less than a week after we got our night vision goggles (this was early 80s when the only experience we had with NVG was from movies) the word came down from on high that "no, NVGs CANNOT see through walls and anyone found using them outside the female latrine would be called in for office hours

MadameX:OK, I LOL'd. Probably wouldn't really be that bad that fast, but yeah - every service has a few Hold My Beer And Watch This kinda people.

I worked in that hospital in Germany they mention, and we got our share of the results of folks doing dumb things - guys trying to rappel out the 4th floor window, putting someone in a metal locker and throwing him out the 2nd floor window, sliding down a freshly-waxed hallway and imbedding a doorstop in the thigh, etc.